Engineering Manager, Developer Experience

At Vanta, our mission is to secure the internet and protect consumer data. We believe that security should be monitored and verified continuously, and we empower companies to practice better security and prove it with ease. Vanta has a kind and talented team, and while some have prior security experience, many have been successful at Vanta without it. 

We are seeking an experienced Engineering Manager to lead our Developer Experience team. This team is dedicated to creating and optimizing tools and infrastructure that empower our developers to deliver high-quality software efficiently. A key focus of this role is to integrate AI-driven solutions to enhance developer workflows and experiences.

As an Engineering Manager, you’ll be responsible for setting strategy, leading your team to deliver results consistently and sustainably, growing and developing talented engineers, and cultivating a healthy, results-driven culture on your team to deliver significant value to our customers and enable our business to scale.

Vanta’s business, technology surface, and team are growing—this provides a career-defining opportunity for you to grow as an engineering leader. It’s essential that we accelerate Vanta’s engineering discipline through an innovative developer environment while investing in the right abstractions and systems to enable us to scale to more customers and product lines. You’ll leverage your past experience and play a crucial role in laying the groundwork for a successful engineering organization, contributing to developing foundational processes that enable our entire team, and organization, to scale. Our business has an incredible product-market fit and effectively monetized since the day we signed our first customer.

In this role, you’ll be leading Vanta’s Developer Experience team, focusing on driving productivity experimentation and launch of AI powered tools that allow our engineering team to achieve optimal velocity. Finally, you will maintain and evolve the quantitative definition of developer productivity and leverage analysis to inform future decisions.

Visit our Vanta Engineering Blog to learn more about what our team is working on! 

What you’ll do as an Engineering Manager at Vanta:

• Manage and mentor a team of engineers focused on developing world-class developer productivity tools and infrastructure.

• Define and implement strategies for developer environments, source control, continuous integration (CI), test infrastructure, and release processes to enable rapid innovation while upholding high-security standards.

• Drive the adoption and integration of AI tools designed to enhance developer productivity and experience.

• Stay abreast of emerging AI technologies and assess their applicability in streamlining development processes.

• Work closely with stakeholders to deeply understand developer needs, identifying and implementing solutions that support secure and efficient development. 

• Partner with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration of AI-enhanced tools into the development workflow.

• Design and refine processes that enhance team operations and continuously improve developer productivity as the organization scales.

• Champion best practices for developer support tooling.  

How to be successful in this role:

• 3+ years of experience managing technical teams of six or more engineers.

• Proven track record in building and improving development workflows and tools.

• Demonstrated experience in integrating AI tools to enhance developer productivity is highly desirable.

• Deep knowledge of modern development practices, including source control, CI/CD pipelines, and developer tooling. 

• Familiarity with AI and machine learning concepts, particularly as they apply to developer tools and productivity enhancements.

• Strong leadership abilities with experience in hiring, mentoring, and growing senior engineers.

• Excellent communication skills to build consensus with stakeholders and articulate the benefits of AI-driven developer tools.

Things that may allow you to standout: 

• Experience building or experimenting with tools and environments for AI/ML development.

• Expertise in security and privacy best practices for development infrastructure.

• Experience managing initiatives across multiple products/teams.

• Experience with large-scale monorepos and enabling extensive developer collaboration.

What you can expect as a Vantan:

• Industry-competitive compensation

• 100% covered medical, dental, and vision benefits with dependents coverage

• 16 weeks fully-paid parental Leave for all new parents

• Health & wellness and remote workplace stipends

• Family planning benefits through Carrot Fertility

• 401(k) matching

• Flexible work hours and location

• Open PTO policy

• 11 paid holidays in the US

• Offices in SF, NYC, London, Dublin, and Sydney

To provide greater transparency to candidates, we share base pay ranges for all US-based job postings regardless of state. We set standard base pay ranges for all roles based on function, level, and country location, benchmarked against similar-stage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors and may vary based on candidate location, skills, depth of work experience, and relevant licenses/credentials.

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At Vanta, we are committed to hiring diverse talent of different backgrounds and as such, it is important to us to provide an inclusive work environment for all. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, gender identity, age, religion, sexual orientation, veteran or disability status, or any other protected class. As an equal opportunity employer, we encourage and welcome people of all backgrounds to apply.

About Vanta

We started in 2018, in the wake of several high-profile data breaches. Online security was only becoming more important, but we knew firsthand how hard it could be for fast-growing companies to invest the time and manpower it takes to build a solid security foundation. Vanta was inspired by a vision to restore trust in internet businesses by enabling companies to improve and prove their security.From our early days automating security monitoring for compliance standards like SOC 2, HIPAA and ISO 27001 to creating the world's leading Trust Management Platform, our vision remains unchanged. 

Now more than ever, making security continuous—not just a point-in-time check— is essential. Thousands of companies rely on Vanta to build, maintain and demonstrate their trust— all in a way that's real-time and transparent.